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- E-books in Libraries: A Practical Guide/The 2011 Guide to Free or Nearly-Free e-Books
- Open access policy implementation: first results compared
- Profit or access: which is more important for Chinese medical journals?
- Do discounted journal access programs help researchers in sub-Saharan Africa? A bibliometric analysis
- PEER: green open access – insight and evidence
- Costs, risks and benefits in improving access to journal articles
- Things I wish I knew three years ago - by the Davis Open Science Group
- Open science is a research accelerator
- Publishing Privateers?
- Making Open Data Real: A Public Consultation | data.gov.uk
- Dog Days in the Data Mine
- EUROPA - Press Releases - Neelie Kroes Vice President European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda Opening up Europe: from Common Standards to Open Data OpenForum Europe Summit 2011, Brussels 22nd September 2011
- Call for proposals for a study to develop a set of indicators to measure open access
- Scientist meets Publisher - YouTube
- Creative Commons in Museums
- COAR » A Case for Interoperability for Open Access Repositories
- Expanding access to published research findings | Research Information Network
- JISC Research Information Management (RIM) Projects Final Event
- Wiley-Blackwell signs three new international open access agreements
- Building an Open Data Repository: Lessons and Challenges
| E-books in Libraries: A Practical Guide/The 2011 Guide to Free or Nearly-Free e-Books Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:20 AM PDT Learned Publishing 24 (4), 332 (2011) |
| Open access policy implementation: first results compared Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:19 AM PDT Learned Publishing 24 (4), 311 (2011) Abstract: Open Access policy implementation is a tough job. Policy pioneers have faced considerable challenges in meeting their own aims and achieving recognized success. Professionals charged with implementing policy typically need several years to accomplish significant progress. This is a study of first results from a small but significant number of cases with an emphasis on variety and on defining a methodological standard. All cases have been reconstructed through documents and interviews. The most salient issues of policy implementation are investigated comparatively, namely (i) the matching infrastructure that a policy requires; (ii) the issue of capturing content and scholarly compliance; (iii) how to provide access to the content and foster usage; (iv) and the benefits offered to authors. As the author is pivotal to any open access solution, this provides a comparative perspective for delineating a policy research agenda. |
| Profit or access: which is more important for Chinese medical journals? Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:17 AM PDT Learned Publishing 24 (4), 299 (2011) Abstract: The Chinese Medical Association, one of the largest and most influential medical journal publishers in China, signed an exclusive copyright transfer agreement with Beijing Wanfang Data Co. Ltd in 2006, which ended the era of cheap transfer of copyrights from journals to full-text databases. Since then, many journals have chosen the same route to earn more money. However, without generally recognized databases that offer free access to medical abstracts in China, many potential readers are lost. In addition, many Chinese readers do not have adequate literature retrieval skills: more convenient access to journals is therefore far more important than earning immediate profits. Goods in exclusive shops are more expensive than those in ordinary shops. That is why many journals sell exclusive copyrights to databases. However, while obtaining more profits by exclusive copyright transfer, journals may actually lose a large proportion of readers. |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:15 AM PDT Learned Publishing 24 (4), 287 (2011) Abstract: Prior research has suggested that providing free and discounted access to the scientific literature to researchers in low-income countries increases article production and citation. Using traditional bibliometric indicators for institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, we analyze whether institutional access to TEEAL (a digital collection of journal articles in agriculture and allied subjects) increases: (i) article production; (ii) reference length; and (iii) number of citations to journals included in the TEEAL collection. Our analysis is based on nearly 20,000 articles - containing half a million references - published between 1988 and 2009 at 70 institutions in 11 African countries. We report that access to TEEAL does not appear to result in higher article production, although it does lead to longer reference lists (an additional 2.6 references per paper) and a greater frequency of citations to TEEAL journals (an additional 0.4 references per paper), compared to non-subscribing institutions. We discuss how traditional bibliometric indicators may not provide a full picture of the effectiveness of free and discounted literature programs. |
| PEER: green open access – insight and evidence Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:14 AM PDT Learned Publishing 24 (4), 267 (2011) Abstract: In support of investigating the effects of systematic archiving of authors' final peer-reviewed, accepted manuscripts (green open access), PEER has developed a robust observatory infrastructure which has already successfully processed over 44,000 manuscripts. Technical challenges successfully overcome by the project include non-uniformity of manuscript files and metadata formats, embargo management, and author authentication for repository deposit. Three areas of research investigating (i) author and reader attitudes and behaviours, (ii) article-level usage at repositories and publisher platforms, and (iii) the economics of large-scale archiving have been commissioned and are producing results. The baseline behavioural survey identified an increasing general awareness of open access, but a lower awareness of institutional and subject repositories. Perceptions were also found to vary depending on whether individuals were responding from an author or reader perspective. PEER itself has seen low uptake from authors when invited to self-deposit into the project. Further results from all three research areas are due before the project ends in May 2012. |
| Costs, risks and benefits in improving access to journal articles Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:10 AM PDT Learned Publishing 24 (4), 247 (2011) Abstract: This paper reports on a study - overseen by representatives of the publishing, library, and research funder communities in the UK - investigating the drivers, costs, and benefits of potential ways to increase access to scholarly journals. It identifies five different but realistic scenarios for moving towards that end over the next five years, including gold and green open access, moves towards national licensing, publisher-led delayed open access, and transactional models. It then compares and evaluates the benefits as well as the costs and risks for the UK. The scenarios, and the modelling on which they are based, amount to a benefit-cost analysis to help in appraising policy options. Our conclusion is that policymakers should encourage the use of existing subject and institutional repositories, but avoid pushing for reductions in embargo periods, which might put at risk the sustainability of the underlying scholarly publishing system. They should also promote and facilitate a transition to gold open access, while seeking to ensure that the average level of publication fees does not exceed c.?2.000; that the rate in the UK of open access publication is broadly in step with the rest of the world; and that total payments to publishers from UK universities do not rise as a consequence. |
| Things I wish I knew three years ago - by the Davis Open Science Group Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:59 AM PDT Internet Archive community audio, (16 Sep 2011) UC Davis Open Science talk to Incoming Graduate Students. With accompanying Slides. (Audio Run time: 55:58) |
| Open science is a research accelerator Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:52 AM PDT Nat Chem 3 (10), 745-8 (Oct 2011) An open-source approach to the problem of producing an off-patent drug in enantiopure form serves as an example of how academic and industrial researchers can join forces to make new scientific discoveries that could have a huge impact on human health. |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:36 PM PDT Vice-Chancellor's blog, (12 Sep 2011) " We put a huge amount of effort into research that is partly funded from public money, substantially supported by our own time. We write peer reviews for journals, sit on editorial boards and edit special editions of journals, making the results of research widely available. When we come to publish ourselves, we often surrender our copyright in full, including our right ever to reprint or distribute our papers. But then our university libraries have to pay substantial subscriptions (that increase annually at rates significantly above general inflation) so that our colleagues and students can read our work. And, in a final turn of the screw, we are invited to pay a large amount of money so that we can send our own papers to our colleagues and collaborators without risk of prosecution (I was recently offered a special price of $3000 for this privilege). Dividends from publishing companies are paid to private investors. Many people would agree that George Monbiot has a point. What is less well known is that, irrespective of the contract for final publication, it is quite legal to make the final draft of a publication available to anyone in an open access repository. This is not an ideal way to go; such versions will not have the correct pagination, illustrations and figures may not be as published and there will often be minor editorial changes made to the published version...." |
| Making Open Data Real: A Public Consultation | data.gov.uk Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:31 PM PDT data.gov.uk "The Open Data consultation paper sets out [the UK] Government’s proposed approach for Transparency and Open Data Strategy, which is aimed at establishing a culture of openness and transparency in public services. We want to hear from everyone – citizens, businesses, public services themselves, and other interest groups – on how we can best embed a culture of openness and transparency in our public services. The consultation closes on 27 October 2011...." |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:30 PM PDT DavidWorlock.com, (22 Sep 2011) "According to research quoted by the UK’s National Centre for Text Mining “fewer than 7.84% of scientific claims made in a full text article are reported in the abstract for that article”. This, they point out, makes cross-searching of articles using data mining and extraction techniques very important to science research. Fortunately the JISC organization which licences all journal article content from publishers on behalf of UK universities permits researchers to data mine these files, and no doubt this was agreed with the publishers within the license(?). But the question in my mind is this: who owns the product created by the data mining, and is this a new value which can be resold to someone else? ..." |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:11 PM PDT europa.eu "We are going to take action: we are going to open up Europe's public sector. I am convinced that the potential to re-use public data is significantly untapped. Such data is a resource, a new and valuable raw material. If we became able to mine it, that would be an investment which would pay off with benefits for all of us. Benefits for the citizen and for society, because making good use of public data can make your life better....Second, benefits for the economy....Third, benefits for science. Because research in genomics, pharmacology or the fight against cancer increasingly depends on the availability and sophisticated analysis of large data sets. Sharing such data means researchers can collaborate, compare, and creatively explore whole new realms. We cannot afford for access to scientific knowledge to become a luxury, and the results of publicly funded research in particular should be spread as widely as possible. Fourth, of course there is some self-interest in this as well: there are benefits for the public sector itself....And, perhaps most importantly, benefits for democracy because it enhances transparency, accessibility and accountability. After all, what could be more natural than public authorities who have collected information on behalf of citizens using their tax money giving it back to those same citizens. New professionals such as data journalists are our allies in explaining what we do...." |
| Call for proposals for a study to develop a set of indicators to measure open access Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:48 PM PDT cordis.europa.eu "The European Commission has published a call for proposals for a study to develop a set of indicators to measure open access. The main aim of the call will be to develop an indicator ensuring a yearly and sustainable monitoring of the growth of open access literature from 2000 onwards within the European Research Area (ERA) and beyond....Another part of this call is a study on the development of open access strategies in ERA and the other countries. This secondary group will be selected by an exploratory study on a composed indicator measuring the growth of open access in terms of literatures, policies, journals and repositories...." |
| Scientist meets Publisher - YouTube Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:34 PM PDT |
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| COAR » A Case for Interoperability for Open Access Repositories Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:26 PM PDT coar.uni-goettingen.de Abstract: Open Access repositories, whose number has been steadily rising, are an important component of the global e-Research infrastructure. The real value of repositories lies in the potential to interconnect them to create a network of repositories, a network that can provide unified access to research outputs and be (re-) used by machines and researchers. However, in order to achieve this potential, we need interoperability. The purpose of this paper is to provide a high-level overview of interoperability of Open Access repositories, identify the major issues and challenges that need to be addressed, stimulate the engagement of the repository community and launch a process that will lead to the establishment of a COAR roadmap for repository interoperability. |
| Expanding access to published research findings | Research Information Network Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:09 PM PDT www.rin.ac.uk "A new independent working group has been set up to examine how UK-funded research findings can be made more accessible. The group will propose a programme of action and make recommendations to government, research funders, publishers and other interested parties on how access to research findings and outcomes can be broadened for key audiences such as researchers, policy makers and the general public. The group emerged from transparency discussions initiated at a high level round table meeting by the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister for Universities and Science. It is made up of representatives of the HE sector, research funders, the research community, scholarly publishers, and libraries. It is chaired by Dame Janet Finch DBE, Professor of Sociology at Manchester University and independent co-Chair of the Council for Science and Technology. Focusing on academic publications – specifically journal articles, conference proceedings and monographs – the working group will take into account parallel work relating to research data and other outputs being conducted by the Royal Society...." |
| JISC Research Information Management (RIM) Projects Final Event Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:07 PM PDT Repositories Support Project Repositories Support Project, (22 Sep 2011) "On Tuesday, I attended the JISC Research Information Management (RIM) Projects Final Event at the Manchester Conference Centre....At the risk of stating the obvious, all the projects used CERIF as a means of improving the management of research information...." |
| Wiley-Blackwell signs three new international open access agreements Posted: 22 Sep 2011 11:50 AM PDT www.eurekalert.org "Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, has signed open access funding agreements with three European research organizations: the Max Planck Society in Germany, the FWF Austrian Science Fund, and Telethon, one of the largest biomedical non-profit organizations in Italy. These agreements provide active financial support and a streamlined process for authors to ensure open access to their published research in Wiley-Blackwell journals. Telethon and the FWF have open access policies, requiring published articles to be freely available online and funded research papers to be deposited in UK PubMed Central. Authors can comply with those policies when publishing in any Wiley Open Access journal or by choosing the Online Open option, which is available for many Wiley-Blackwell journals. Telethon and the FWF will pay open access publication charges for authors publishing in any participating Wiley-Blackwell journal, who are reporting original results of FWF or Telethon funded research. The Max Planck Society agreement applies only to funded research published in any Wiley Open Access journal. All the agreements ensure that the article is made open access upon publication in Wiley Online Library, as well as being deposited to PubMedCentral (PMC) and mirrored to the UK version of PMC (UKPMC)...." |
| Building an Open Data Repository: Lessons and Challenges Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:53 AM PDT SSRN Social Science Research Network, (21 Sep 2011) In Dynamics of the Internet and Society: A Decade in Internet Time, September 2011, Oxford Internet Institute Symposium. From the Abstract: Open access to data and other research output has been touted as a crucial step toward transparency and quality in science. This paper takes a critical look at what it takes to share social science research data, from the perspective of a small data repository at Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. The ISPS Data Archive was built to create an open access digital collection of social science experimental data, metadata, and associated files produced by ISPS researchers, for the purpose of replication of research findings, further analysis, and teaching. This paper describes the development of the ISPS Data Archive and discusses the inter-related challenges of replication, integration, and stewardship. It argues that open data requires effort, investment of resources, and planning. By itself, it does not enhance knowledge. |
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